February 24, 2012

By David J. [email protected]

The Locust Valley Board of Edu-cation has alarmed the public of the current situation the Locust Valley Central School District is facing with the new 2% property tax cap being imposed by New York State.

The Board held a Budget Forum on Thursday, February 16th at the Locust Valley High School/Middle School Mini-Theater where over 100 local residents gathered to discuss what they valued in the school system and where they feel cuts should be made.

“We’ve never had a reach out group that is more important than what we are doing right now,” said School Board President Jack Dolce. “If we want to maintain the quality of our school district we are going to have to work together as a community.”

It was explained to the crowd that the imposed 2% property tax cap from the state is not a 2% cap on the budget, but rather a 2% cap on the tax levy, which refl ects the amount taxes will be raised as a result of an increase in the budget. It was also noted that the 2% tax cap levy is not a guarantee that it must be voted on by just over 50% of the community.

Should the community be will-ing to pay more than 2% then it would require just over 60% of the vote. This Budget Forum was being held to help the Board get a feeling of which direction the community wants to head in.

The crowd was divided up into three groups: Elementary/Inter-

mediate School, Middle School and High School. Each group, headed by administrators and Board members, discussed what things they valued and what areas they feel can be reduced. After a half-hour, the groups reconvened to collectively report back to the Board in an open forum format.

High School groupThe High School group, headed

by LVHS principal Dr. Kieran Mc-Guire and Board Trustee Erika Bruno, noted that their items of importance were driver’s educa-tion, sports, academic support af-ter school, SAT/PSAT prep, AP & IB support, maintaining class size, college level programs, arts pro-

grams, science research programsand BOCES programs.

Reduction suggestions includedshared services with other dis-tricts was suggested in terms ofcustodial workers, eliminatinglate buses, co-paying for testingand skimming all budgetary areasacross the board so that “no oneprogram was affected but every-thing was tightened up.”

The High School group notedthe fact that the condition of theeducation programs affect every-one’s property values should bebrought out to the larger commu-nity. They felt a comparison withan inferior school district should


After many years of rotting away, the eye-sore that was the old Pig ‘N Whis-tle building at the Bayville Stands was torn down on Tues-day, February 21st to make way for a new offi ce building/apart-ment complex to be constructed by R & R Mohring Enterprises of Glen Cove.

The site is famous for once housing the Bayville Casino, which was destroyed by a fi re in 1924, followed years later by Bayville’s signature dining es-tablishment the Pig ‘N Whistle, which featured a snack bar in the front and a restaurant in

the back. As the years moved on several restaurants opened in the spot including the Blue Lobster and Luca & Maxie’s be-fore it became abandoned for a

decade.The property is

owned by Rob & Rich Mohring who plan to erect a build-ing that will house four residential units on the top fl oor and four commercial on the bottom level. The brothers said they hope to have the Vic-torian-style building fi nished in a year.

“We are trying to get a nice combination of retail and offi c-es,” said Rich. “No restaurants.”

Hank Pinkerton, a 30 year

The old Pig ‘N Whistle building had become a community eye-sore.

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Journalist Marie Colvin of EN killed in SyriaBy David J. [email protected]

The Oyster Bay-East Norwich community collectively mourned with the rest of the world when they awoke on Wednesday, Feb-ruary 22nd to the news that 56 year-old award-winning journal-ist Marie Colvin, who grew up in East Norwich, was killed while on assignment in Homs, Syria along with French photographer Remi Ochlik. Daughter of Rosemarie Colvin of East Norwich, Colvin was reporting on the devastation to the Syrian people as Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad and his army shelled the city of Homs bat-tling those who oppose his rule.

A group of journalists were bunking in a house together where they were targeted by Assad’s army. “They fi red in the front of the building. The journalists all ran down to the basement. They talked about what to do and de-cided to leave to hide somewhere else,” said Rosemarie Colvin. “Ma-rie and the French photographer

were the fi rst ones coming out the door. They actually launched a rocket at them.”

Sadly, Colvin was originally supposed to leave on Tuesday, February 21st but stayed an extra day to fi nish her reporting.

Colvin worked as a war corre-spondent for the Sunday Times of London. She has won several awards including Best Foreign Correspondent in the British Press Awards (twice), Journalist of the Year by the Foreign Press Associa-tion in 2000 and Courage in Jour-nalism by the International Wom-en’s Media Foundation in 2000.

Committed to her causesGrowing up Colvin was always

involved in protest movements during the 1960s and 1970s cen-tered around the Vietnam War and civil rights. “When she was a very young teenager she insisted on going to march in Washington. I entrusted a couple of friends to watch out for her,” recalled Rose-marie. “She was always very com-mitted to her causes.”

She expanded her horizons by being an exchange student in Bra-zil while she was at Oyster Bay High School. She became fl uent in Spanish and Portuguese. At the end of her life she was fl uent in fi ve languages.

Colvin also got into sailing at the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht

Club on Centre Island where she would work in the summer. “Ma-rie would crew for P.J. Roosevelt, have lunch with all the sailors then put on her uniform and wait-ress,” said Rosemarie. “She had a lot of friends here.”

After graduating Oyster Bay High School in 1974, Colvin went to Yale University as an anthropol-ogy major and got hooked on writ-ing after taking a seminar with author John Hersey. She ended up working at the Yale Daily News during her senior year. At the end of the year she decided to go into the journalism fi eld getting her fi rst job at a union newspaper, which she edited. Colvin then got a job at United Press International (UPI) in 1980 and through that or-ganization she received an assign-ment in Washington.

Colvin moved on to become UPI’s fi rst female Bureau Chief in Paris in 1984. She was there dur-ing the bombing of Libya under the Reagan administration. She kept concentrating on stories in the Middle East and as a result of

her stellar work the Sunday Timesof London offered her a position.

Reporter of the peopleIt wasn’t war that Colvin was

drawn to but telling the people’sstory. “Marie had strong feelingsabout all the oppression and ter-rorism that was going on. Shewas a very committed person,”said Rosemarie. “All of her articlesstarted with a human being. Shewanted to expose what was wrongin these places and help the peo-ple that were there.”

When asked if she was fearless,Rosemarie said, “I don’t think shewas fearless but more committedthan anything else. Marie woulddo anything to get her story out.She would were headdresses likethe other women to get out in thestreet and fi nd out what was go-ing on. She put herself in a lot ofperilous places. I think she alwaysknew she was in danger.”

Throughout several decades ofreporting, Colvin had sustained

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Photo by David J. Criblez

The old Pig ‘N Whistle building at the Bayville Stands was torn down on Tuesday,February 21st.

LV School Board reaches out to the community

Pig ‘N Whistle building torn down in Bayville

Photo by Pat Strassberg

Falcons soaringThe Locust Valley Varsity Boys’ Basketball team (second seed) defeated Oyster Bay High School (third seed) 45-42 in the Nas-sau County Class B semifi nal at LIU Post in Brookville on Satur-day, February 18th. Joe Gilio (#14 pictured above right) scored a soaring 18 points in the game while Alex Rawa (#5 pictured above center) captured 8 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists. The Falcons will face Cold Spring Harbor tomorrow, February 25th at 8:30 PM at LIU Post. Meanwhile the Locust Valley Varsity Girls’ Basketball team (third seed) beat out Carl Place (second seed) with the same score, 45-42, in the Nassau County Class B semi-fi nal in Port Washington on Saturday, February 18th. Brooke Spal-lino went on a career-high 23-point tear helping her team capture the win. The Lady Falcons will also play Cold Spring Harbor to-morrow at 6:30 PM at LIU Post before the boys’ game.

Marie Colvin


Locust Valley High School Principal Dr. Kieran McGuire shares hisgroup’s “Items of Importance” with the School Board.

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Local students throughout Long Island recently competed in Rayn-ham Hall Museum’s Great Presidents’ Day Essay Contest. The winning es-say authors were invited to a recep-tion at Raynham Hall on Thursday, February 16th to read their essays and receive prizes for their work. Each student got to choose their own favorite president to write about.

The contest, sponsored by Rayn-ham Hall Museum and the Oyster Bay Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), drew 500 entries. Each essay was rated for how well it was written and it’s originality.

“We make sure the essays were written by the children. Occasion-ally a parent will try to sneak one in. It’s easy to spot because kids have a certain whimsical perspec-tive on things,” said Director Har-riet Gerard Clark. “The message we want each participant to learn is that every president was a person. The more you learn about charac-ters and events, the more interest-ing they become.”

The judges for the contest were:

Phil Blocklyn – Director of the Oys-ter Bay Historical Society, Franklin Hill Perrell – Executive Director of the Roslyn Landmark Society, Har-riet Gerard Clark – Director of Rayn-ham Hall and Stephen Waldenburg – Raynham Hall Education & Events Coordinator.

This year’s winners were: sec-ond grade division – First Place: Emily Shaw of Oyster Bay, who wrote about Theodore Roosevelt with Runner-up: Katie Shaw of Oys-ter Bay, who wrote about Barack Obama; third grade division – First Place: Millie Girardi of Oyster Bay, who wrote about Theodore Roos-evelt with Runner-up: Ava Aschet-tino of East Norwich, who wrote about Ronald Reagan; fourth grade division – First Place: Sydney Roth-schild of Roslyn, who wrote about Zachary Taylor with Runner-up: Sarah Kim of East Hills, who wrote about Abraham Lincoln and fi fth grade division – First Place: Gus Girardi of Oyster Bay, who wrote about George Washington with Runner-up: Jordan Dyer of Bayville, who wrote about Abraham Lincoln.

For more information, call (516) 922-6808 or visit: www.raynham-hall.org.


While Theodore Roos-evelt’s home at Sagamore Hill in Cove Neck is under renovation, the spirit of the 26th president will continue to be spread as the National Historic Site loans out sev-eral of TR’s artifacts to be put on display at various museums around the coun-try.

Currently, Sagamore Hill has lent nine bronze statues from the president’s home to the Metropolitan Muse-um of Art, which is display-ing some of them in their new American Wing. The statues being showcased are the “The Bronco Buster” and “The Puritan.” Both statues are typically on display in the North Room (a.k.a. the Trophy Room). “The Bronco Buster” sits on the mantel while “The Puritan” is in the back of the room on a table.

“We’ve also lent out a 100 objects to the National Fire Arms Museum in Fair-fax, VA including TR’s desk. They are going to be setting up a faux library,” said Sag-amore Hill Superintendent Tom Ross. “We wanted to make sure these items were out there for Roosevelt fans to enjoy.”

Locally Ross said other objects from TR’s house will be on display at the Old Or-chard Museum at Sagamore Hill. “We have brought over paintings and some of the animal heads which will be hung on the fi rst fl oor. It’s unique to see because normally you can’t get that close up and personal,” said Ross. “Just because the house is closed doesn’t mean there aren’t things to do at Sagamore Hill.”

For more information, call (516) 922-4788 or visit: www.nps.gov/sahi.

Raynham Hall holds Presidents’ Day Writing Contest


(From left, fi rst row) Emily & Katie Shaw of Oyster Bay. (From left, secondrow) Jordan Dyer of Bayville, Sydney Rothschild of Roslyn, Ava Aschet-tino of East Norwich and Millie Girardi of Oyster Bay. (From left, third row)Gus Girardi of Oyster Bay and Sarah Kim of East Hills. (From left, fourthrow) Stephen Waldenburg – Raynham Hall Education & Events Coordina-tor, Franklin Hill Perrell – Executive Director of the Roslyn Landmark Soci-ety and Harriet Gerard Clark – Director of Raynham Hall museum.

Sagamore Hill loans out TR artifacts

“The Bronco Buster”

“The Puritan”

The Oyster Bay Repub-lican Club will hold its An-nual Raffl e at the Italian-American Citizens Club, located on Summit Street, in Oyster Bay, on Sunday, February 26th from 3 to 5 PM. Enjoy hot buffet, drinks, entertainment and have a minimum one-in-forty chance of winning one of eight prizes, including a grand prize of $1,000 in the annual raffl e, all for $60 per couple.

Based upon last year’s attendance, it is suggested that you subscribe to your lucky number, as soon as possible, by making your check for $60 payable to the Oyster Bay Republican Club, Inc. and return it c/o OBRC, P.O. Box 6, Oyster Bay, NY 11771. Upon receipt of your check, OBRC will issue you numbered tickets, which will be your raffl e number and your admission ticket for two. Sales are limited to 300 numbers.

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61 E. Main St.Oyster Bay, NY 11771www.christchurchoysterbay.org (516) 922 - 6377The Rev. Peter Casparian, Rector

Upcoming Services & EventsSundays: 8 am Holy Eucharist (spoken), 10 am Holy Eucharist (sung)

Wednesdays in Lent: Lenten Series Program, Parish Hall, 2/29 – 3/28, 6:30 pmSimple Supper followed by presentation-discussion on the theme, “I will, with God’s help,”

focused on the 5 questions asked in the Baptismal Covenant, 7:00 – 7:45 pm

Sun., April 1: Palm Sunday Eucharist, 10 am. Service begins with a joyous procession

and ends with a theatrical reading of the Passion of Christ.

Thursday, April 5: Maundy Thursday, 7 pm. A simple, meditative service commemorating Christ’s institution of the Eucharist

including the ceremonial washing of the feet.

Friday, April 6: Good Friday, 12 & 7 pm. Quiet service remembering Christ’s Passion.

Sat., April 7, Great Vigil of Easter, 8 pm, with Holy Eucharist

Sun., April 8: Easter Sunday, 8 am and 10 am Holy Eucharist. He is Risen! Celebratory liturgies led by Combined Choirs featuring organ and brass.

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In this fast paced world that we all live in it’s im-perative that we are able to fi nd balance and center our-selves. This practice was the emphasis of a book talk and meditation with Dave Beal, manager of the Power Brain Training Center in Syosset, on February 9th at Forest Books in Locust Valley.

Beal has been a long time follower of Ilchi Lee, author of The Call of Sedona and founder of the training sys-tem called Brain Education, which he teaches. “We all have the power that if we focus on our dream we can overcome any obstacle to reach it. It gives me a lot of hope,” said Beal. “The medi-tation and exercise that Lee details in his book is both practical & philosophical. It’s very inspirational.”

At the Power Brain Train-ing Center Beal teaches yoga, Tai Chi and mind & body exercise meditation, visualization and relax-ation. “Our motto is healthy body, happy heart and pow-er brain,” said Beal.

Lee, who has a retreat center in South Korea, opened another retreat cen-ter in Sedona, which he has turned into the spiritual Mecca of the United States. “Lee drove coast-to-coast to see what areas spoke to him and he couldn’t fi nd any-thing. One day he saw a pic-ture of the red rocks of Se-dona in a newspaper and he drove there,” said Beal. “He found an abandoned resort, which he fi xed up. Today it’s this gorgeous, amazing

place where people go forself-refl ection and medita-tion. It’s a vortex of energy.”

Beal spoke to the crowdabout the importance oftaking time out of your dayfor yourself. “Living a lifebased on energy principlesor enlightenment is notabout sitting on a moun-taintop removing ourselvesfrom society. It’s about tak-ing time in our day to centerourselves so we can be ourbest around the people welove in our community. It’sall about fi nding balance,”he said. “We have all theseamazing advancements intechnology and medicinebut at the same time wehave all these health prob-lems that we never hadbefore. We are making our-selves sick! We must learnto keep the good and reducethe bad.”

For more information onForest Books, located at 182Birch Hill Road in LocustValley, call (516) 759-1489.To inquire about the PowerBrain Training Center, locat-ed at 567 Jericho Turnpikein Syosset, visit: www.pow-erbraintraining.com or call(516) 364-3413.


Life-long resident of Oyster Bay Catherine Messera turned 90 years-old on January 29th. She was treated to a surprise party at the Italian-American Citi-zens Club in Oyster Bay thrown by her daughters Teri Aquilino and Linda Messera.

“My daughter took

me there to drop by for a drink,” she said. “The next thing I know there’s 80 people yell-ing ‘SURPRISE!’ I cried. There were people there I hadn’t seen in years.”

Everybody enjoyed a catered Italian dinner by Café Al Dente. “I had a great time and got a lot of nice gifts,” she said. “To be honest, 90 is no big deal to me. I don’t feel any different!”


The Community Foun-dation of Oyster Bay’s An-nual Fund Drive kick off was held at the Oyster Bay Cove home of trustees George & Abby O’Neill on February 6th. While the O’Neills were out of town, they were kind enough to lend their home, Meriweather, as the tradi-tional site of the meeting. Board Vice President Christie McNicol served as the host as she welcomed this year’s guest speaker Melanie Paez, new Director of the Parent-Child Home Program.

Since 1965, the Commu-nity Foundation has served the Oyster Bay-East Nor-wich community by helping fund local non-profi t orga-nizations such as Youth & Family Counseling Agency, the Waterfront Center, the Life Enrichment Center at Oyster Bay, the Oyster Bay Main Street Association, the Parent-Child Home Pro-gram, the Hispanic Cultural Center of Oyster Bay and others. This year’s fundrais-ing goal is $200,000.

Melanie Paez, who has replaced long-time director Lynn Cryer, gave the crowd some insight into the Par-ent-Child Home Program. She served as a former in-tern, under Cryer, working with three Spanish speak-ing, lower income families in there homes from Octo-ber to early May last year.

“I got to know both the parents and the children. I saw how much they grew and benefi ted from the vis-its,” said Paez. “It was a great experience. It really meant a lot to me.”

The research-based early childhood literacy program

provides intensive home visits with families that have chil-dren between the ages of 2 and 4. The families are chal-lenged by poverty, low levels of education or language and literacy barriers. Representa-tives from the Parent-Child Home Program visit the home twice a week reinforcing play-ing, verbal interaction and reading activities for the par-ent and child. Books and toys are provided for the families as learning tools.

“These activities create a language rich environment and promote positive par-ent skills,” said Paez. “One of the great benefi ts is that we get to know the families in their home. The parents look to us for a lot of sup-port. We try to empower the parents and make them feel important as the teacher.”

Each 30-minute session includes the parent in the activities. Because the rep-resentative visits the home each family gets individual attention and a connection is made. “Each family is go-ing to be a bit different. For some parents it may feel more natural to them while others might struggle with it,” said Paez. “Our hope is that the book or toy we pres-ent them with is utilized by the parent with the children in between our visits. We show them how to use it.”

A lot of time these books and toys are the only books and toys the children have in the house. “I haven’t seen a lot of books other than the ones we are giving them. It’s important that they have this exposure before they go to school. It makes a big dif-ference,” stated Paez. “We stress to the parents that we are not the teacher. We are providing them the tools

so they can be the teacher. The parents are the fi rst and most important teacher in a child’s life. Sometimes the parents don’t realize that because the background they come from doesn’t boast education.”

The Parent-Child Home Program also offers a week-ly playgroup on Wednes-days for two hours at Christ Church, which is open to the community. It helps mothers connect within the community. The event includes a storytime and a snacktime.

“The playgroup gives the children a classroom setting feel. They know some of the faces and get used to sitting down to read,” said Paez. “We serve healthy food like fruit. Very often it’s the fi rst time they are having it be-cause the family can’t afford it. We try to set a good ex-ample.”

When the home visiting program ends in May, the Parent-Child Home Pro-gram sponsors a summer program with a playgroup twice a week. Last year they took a trip to the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum, which was quite successful and popular.

Before leaving guests were given a 2012 Annual Fund Drive brochure high-lighting all organizations Community Foundation supports explaining who they are and why the annual Fund Drive is so important.

For more information on the Parent-Child Home Pro-gram, call (516) 922-6867 or visit: www.yfcaoysterbay.org. Donations for the Com-munity Foundation of Oys-ter Bay’s 2011 Fund Drive can be sent to: 200 Sunset Road, Oyster Bay, NY 11771.

On Wednesday, February 1st, the Friends Academy Varsity chess team swept Jericho HS on all six boards in the fi nal round to capture their third straight Nas-sau County Interscholastic League Chess Champion-ship, by a score of 45-0.

It was an epic conclusion to an undefeated season. The Friends team headed into the competition fi red up in the fi rst round against Great Neck North. Both teams battled fi ercely and the round came down to a nail-biter on the last board,

won by junior Will Duke of Oyster Bay Cove. Friends ul-timately won the fi rst round 27.5 to 17.5, with victories by freshman Anthony Cor-tese of Cove Neck, junior Ethan Nyein of Woodbury and Duke, a draw by junior Jahan Khan of Brookville and two other losses.

Friends went on to sweep in the fi nals, scoring all pos-sible 45 points and winning every game. In the end, the mentally exhausted chess-letes emerged with another victory, adding on to their two-year streak.

The Nassau County Inter-scholastic Chess League wasfounded over 20 years ago.Friends hosted the fi nals athome after fi nishing unde-feated in their regular sea-son. FA Chess coach andWorld Languages and Cul-ture dept. head Polly Dukehas coached the team sinceit entered the league threeyears ago.

Friends will be hosting itsannual Chess Festival on Sun-day, April 22nd from noon to6 PM. For details or to reg-ister, contact Polly Duke at:[email protected].


Dave Beal held a book talk and meditation on February 9th at Forest Books in Lo-cust Valley.

Beal delivers ‘The Call’ at Forest Books

Catherine Messera of Oyster Bay

Messera turns 90 years-old


(From left) Cathy Hogg, Susan Sheeline, Melanie Paez, Barbara Rakusin, Christie McNi-col and Emily Chapman at the Community Foundation’s Annual Fund Drive kick off.

Community Foundation holds Annual Fund Drive kick off

Friends Varsity Chess team wins third county title

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Plant hardiness maps point to a warmer world

If, like so many Long Islanders, you’re a gardener, you’ll have to rethink when you plant your vegetables and fl owers in

the coming years. That’s the conclusion drawn by the U.S.

Department of Agriculture in its recently re-leased Plant Hardiness Zone Map. The map is a guide to regional planting zones. It tells gardeners and farmers when they should plant. Plant har-diness zones are based on the average annual minimum temperature at a given loca-tion in winter.

According to the USDA, every planting zone in the U.S. is warmer by 5 degrees Fahrenheit since the map was last published 22 years ago. Part of the change, the agency says, is because data collection has become more accurate over the past two decades. But, it adds, better data do not ac-count entirely for the change.

There is little doubt that the Earth is warming, according to the USDA. But the agency, wanting to stay out of the global-warming political fray, does not point to hu-mans as climate-change drivers. It leaves it to us to draw our own conclusions.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is now preparing its fi fth assessment report on climate change, due out in 2014. In its fourth report, pub-lished in 2007, the panel of more than 2,000 scientists declared that it was “very likely” that “anthropogenic greenhouse gases” –– the carbon dioxide and methane we produce by burning fossil fuels –– are the primary cause of global warming.

Here’s the thing: Whether or not you be-

lieve in global warming or whether humans cause it, there are simple steps you can take to produce fewer greenhouse gases while saving yourself cash in the process:

■ Grow a garden. The environmental movement likes to talk about locally grown food. If food is produced where people eat it, it doesn’t have to be shipped across country

or from overseas, preventing countless pounds of green-house gases from ships, trains or trucks from being emitted into the atmosphere.

When you grow a garden, you can be sure that you’re eating the freshest organic vegetables possible. And if your garden is big enough, you could save hundreds in grocery bills annually.

■ Walk or ride a bike when you can. We’ve all heard about America’s obe-

sity problem. Here’s a way to help both the planet and yourself while potentially saving yourself a bundle in gasoline costs.

■ Recycle. One of the easiest ways to help the planet is to separate aluminum, glass and newspaper from your trash and recycle them. Recycling produces far fewer greenhouse gases than manufacturing products from scratch. And you’re taking garbage out of the waste stream that would otherwise end up in an incinerator or landfi ll, where processing trash costs more than recycling it. If you want to reduce your garbage tax, recycle.

More information on climate change can be found at the U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency website, epa.gov/climatechange. To learn more about the Agriculture Depart-ment’s new planting zones, go to planthardi-ness.ars.usda.gov.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

DOLORES P. NOVIELLO

Dolores P. Noviello (nee Yula) of Bayville died on February 15th at the age of 76.

Mother of Noreen West (Robert), Charles (Lauren), and the late Nicholas, she was the grandmother of Charles Jr., Lindsay, Cody, Nicholas C., Amanda, Nich-olas M., and Neil, sister of Angela Rode (Robert) and aunt of Amy Aiosa (Frank), Robert Rode, Teri Franco (Michael) and Gina Noviel-lo. She also survived by sev-eral relatives and friends.

Visiting will be held at Oyster Bay Funeral Home, located at 261 South Street in Oyster Bay, on Friday, February 24th from 2-5 & 7-9 PM. A Funeral Mass will be held at St. Gertrude R.C. Church in Bayville on Satur-day, February 25th at 9:30 AM followed by interment at Holy Rood Cemetery. For more information, vis-it: www.oysterbayfuneral-home.com.

LEIF JAMES HOUMAN

Leif James Houman, a

longtime resident of Oyster Bay, died on February 15th at the age of 81.

Husband of Eva, he was the father of Johnny Hou-man (Donna), Yvonne Houman (Frank Smith), Dennis Houman (Tobi) and Sine Matt (Howard), grandfather “Big Daddy” of Graham, Michala, Linden, Jenifer, Caroline, Penelope, Victoria, Bjorn, Dakota and Brooklyn.

Funeral Services are private. Arrangements are entrusted to Oyster Bay Fu-neral Home. For more infor-mation, visit: www.oyster-bayfuneralhome.com.

Sunday, February 26th

■ The Theodore Roos-evelt Sanctuary, located on Cove Road in Oyster Bay Cove, will hold a Member’s Only Chili Cook Off at 3 PM. All members are invited to contribute their own spe-cial chili. Bring your chili in a crock-pot with a serv-ing spoon and any toppings you want. Grand Prize will be distributed for the best chili. To sign up, call (516) 922-3200.

■ The Oyster Bay Re-publican Club will hold its Annual Raffl e at the Italian-American Citizens Club, located on Summit Street, in Oyster Bay, from 3 to 5 PM. Tickets: $60 per cou-ple. Sales are limited to 300 numbers. Send check to: OBRC, P.O. Box 6, Oyster Bay, NY 11771.

Tuesday, February 28th

■ The 82nd annual In-stallation of Offi cers and Directors to the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Cham-ber of Commerce will be held at the Sagamore Yacht Club, located at One Bay Avenue in Oyster Bay, at 7 PM. For more informa-tion, call (516) 922-6464 or email: [email protected]

■ The Oyster Bay-East Norwich School Board will hold a meeting at the Oyster Bay High School Library at 8 PM.

Thursday, March 1st

■ The Upper School students of East Woods School, located at 31 Yel-low Cote Road in Oyster Bay Cove, will perform “Beauty and the Beast,” a musical based on the classic Disney animated fi lm, at 7 PM. Also Friday, March 2nd at 10:30 AM and 7 PM.

Friday, March 2nd ■ The Oyster Bay High

School PTSA will hold its 12th annual “A Taste of the Gold Coast” Gala from 7-11 PM at the New York Insti-tute of Technology de Sev-ersky Center in Brookville. Over 40 local restaurants, caterers and sweet shops will provide a wide array of food and drinks. Post Wines & Spirits of Syosset will pro-vide the fi ne wines. Monies raised from this event will be used for cultural arts programs for students of the Oyster Bay High School and scholarships. For more information, visit: www.obenschools.org.

Sunday, March 4th■ The Oyster Bay His-

torical Society, located at 20 Summit Street, presents a lecture by Liz Roosevelt entitled, “The War of 1812: What Happened & Why It Matters” will be held at the Angela P. Koenig Center at 3 PM. The event is free. For more information on up-coming Historical Society events, call (516) 922-5032 or visit: www.oysterbayhis-torical.org.

■ The Oyster Bay Li-ons Club will host its an-nual Pancake Breakfast at the Life Enrichment Cen-ter, located at 45 East Main Street in Oyster Bay, from 8:30 AM to noon. The cost of the breakfast is $5 per person and kids under 6 are free. The Lions breakfast in-cludes scrambled eggs, pan-cakes, sausage, juice, coffee, tea and more. A bake sale will also be offered for those with a sweet tooth. All pro-ceeds go toward the Lions’ work with the blind.

Wednesday, March 7th

■ Chabad of Oyster Bay & Jericho will hold a Purim celebration at the James Ver-non Intermediate School, located at 880 Oyster Bay Road in East Norwich, from 6-8 PM. The event will fea-ture the comedy and magic of “Magic Al” Garber, plus Purim crafts and child-friendly reading of the scroll of Esther, known in Hebrew as the Megillah. In the spirit of Purim, participants are encouraged to come in cos-tume and be included in the competition, which will award prizes to contestants with the most innovative or funny costumes. The event is a community-wide pro-gram, and all are welcome to join, regardless of Jewish affi liation or background.

Cost:$12 per adult and per $8 per child. For more in-formation, call (516) 922-6489 or email: [email protected].

Thursday, March 8th

■ The Oyster Bay His-torical Society, located at20 Summit Street, presentsa lecture by Town of OysterBay Historian John Ham-mond entitled, “Oyster BayDuring The Civil War Years”will be held at the Angela P.Koenig Center at 7 PM. Theevent is free. For more infor-mation on upcoming Histori-cal Society events, call (516)922-5032 or visit: www.oys-terbayhistorical.org.

Saturday, March 10th

■ The regional round, which is Nassau County-wide, of the Knights of Co-lumbus Free Throw Cham-pionship will be held at St.Dominic’s Monsignor James E. Collins Sports Center onAnstice Street in Oyster Bayat 10 AM.

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“A Wonderful Celebration”To the Editor:

Over 40 local business-es and organizations par-ticipated in the inaugural “Valentine’s Fair in Oyster Bay - Celebrating Ameri-ca’s First Valentine, and all things love.” The week-end of activities started off with a Town proclamation from Supervisor John Ven-ditto and the Board citing the hamlet as the “Heart of Oyster Bay,” recognizing the fi rst ever Family Valentine’s Day, and launching our fi rst ever Chocolate Fair. The brick pathway from Audrey Avenue to Raynham Hall on West Main Street was desig-

nated “Via dell ‘Amore” cre-ating a fi gurative and literal connection between Oyster Bay’s history and commerce.

There were ribbon cut-tings, historical activities, family friendly events, couples contests, dancing, charitable events, health tips and great food. Inspired by Raynham Hall Executive Director Harriett Clark and energized by the indefatiga-ble Chocolate Lady, Lee Per-rotta, the Chamber of Com-merce orchestrated dozens of activities with local busi-nesses and organizations.

We would like to thank all of those who participated in a wonderful celebration of Oyster Bay’s historical importance, diverse shops and restaurants, and grow-

ing momentum of commu-nity spirit.

We look forward to build-ing on this success with fu-ture events for all to enjoy.

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If you’re looking for a great way to spend part of a Saturday and help protect and enhance Tobay Beach, Oyster Bay Town Supervi-sor John Venditto invites you to join him and fellow Town offi cials, along with Town crews and other concerned individuals, on Saturday, March 24th at 10 AM for the 24th annual Dune Stabiliza-tion Project at Tobay Beach.

“Since it started in 1989, the Tobay Dune Stabilization Project has become an im-mensely popular volunteer activity for residents of all ages,” Supervisor Venditto stated. “Part of the project’s appeal is that people can ac-tually see the results of their efforts…the dune grass they

plant is directly responsible for preserving the dunes and beach they enjoy during the summer. Last March, 1,160 volunteers turned out for the event and planted 230,000 stalks of dune grass.”

Dunes provide a natu-ral barrier against storm surges and high winds dur-ing severe weather. Without dunes, waterfront property is at greater risk. Wildlife, such as shore birds, can lose criti-cal habitat, and the coastline itself can be altered. The grass helps stabilize and en-large the dunes by catching blowing and drafting sand.

“By volunteering for the Tobay Dune Stabiliza-tion Project, you can look forward to a few hours of

planting and fun, working alongside Town offi cials and crews, as well as residents from across the Town who share your interest in help-ing preserve Tobay Beach,” Supervisor Venditto said. “As in past years, you’ll be able to fortify yourself with coffee, hot chocolate, clam chowder and donuts provid-ed by generous donors. Once your planting is done, you will leave with the good feel-ing that comes from know-ing you have performed an invaluable environmental service.”

Anyone interested in vol-unteering should contact the Department of Environmen-tal Resources at (516) 677-5748.

Bayville resident Bill Bleyer, a former Society of Professional Journalists Re-gional Director and long-time member of the Long Island Press Club, is SPJ’s national volunteer of the month for February. Region 1 Director Luther Turmelle recommended Bleyer for the honor.

Bleyer is treasurer and past president of his chap-ter. He has served on their board for 30 years, mak-ing him their longest serv-ing board member. Bleyer is also co-chairman of the 2012 Region 1 spring con-ference. He served on the

national SPJ board as a regional director and has chaired the Membership and Resolutions commit-tees.

A staff writer at News-

day since 1981, Bleyer was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for spot news coverage of the 1997 crash of TWA Flight 800. He also has taught as an adjunct professor of communica-tions at Hofstra University.

“It’s hard to overstate the difference that a good, reliable board member and treasurer with continu-ity can mean to a chapter’s health and vitality,” SPJ President John Ensslin said. “Having served with Bill on the Membership Commit-tee, I also know fi rst-hand how valuable his consistent-ly good advice can be.”

Bleyer named SPJ’s Volunteer of the Month

Volunteers needed for Tobay’s Dune Stabilization Project on March 24th

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many serious injuries in-cluding getting hit by shrap-nel while reporting in Sri Lanka causing her to lose her left eye.

“Her eye was just one of the things. She really was injured all over,” said Rosemarie. “Marie still had shrapnel in her brain. She was the fi rst journalist in 10 years to get into Sri Lanka. She snuck in and fi led a sto-ry. The army shot her in the chest. It was so brutal. She’s been hurt several times but she always felt strongly about what she was doing.”

Rosemarie admitted that she worried about her daughter but voicing her thoughts on the mat-ter wasn’t a consideration. “You’d have to know Ma-rie to know how silly that would have been,” she said. “It wasn’t on the table to tell her ‘Go be safe.’ I don’t think she purposely took chances but she would never not consider doing something because there was danger involved.”

Having a daughter who is a war correspondent is a lot like having a daughter who is a soldier. You live know-ing that there’s a strong risk involved in their work ev-

eryday. “I used to not know until it was over but that was a different era,” said Rosemarie. “Now every-thing is instant. You know about it when it’s actually happening.”

Rosemarie regularly read her daughter’s articles and spoke to her approximately every week or two weeks. But last week she had trou-ble reaching her.

“My daughter Cat and I were both trying to get her but she wasn’t getting back to us. We both thought she might have come back home,” said Rosemarie. “Very often she would re-turn and decompress by crewing on sailing races af-ter a tough assignment.”

Last articleIn her fi nal article, pub-

lished in the Sunday Times on February 19th, Colvin reported from inside the Syrian enclave of Baba Amr, which she called “widows’ basement.” In her story Colvin recounts the horrors women and children are experiencing as they try to survive “two weeks of re-lentless bombardment.”

Colvin wrote, “Almost ev-ery building is pock-marked after tank rounds punched

through concrete walls or rockets blasted gaping holes in upper fl oors. The build-ing I was staying in lost its upper fl oor to a rocket last Wednesday. On some streets whole buildings have collapsed — all there is to see are shredded clothes, broken pots and the shat-tered furniture of families destroyed.

“It is a city of the cold and hungry, echoing to ex-ploding shells and bursts of gunfi re. There are no tele-phones and the electricity has been cut off. Few homes have diesel for the tin stoves they rely on for heat in the coldest winter that anyone can remember. Freezing rain fi lls potholes and snow drifts in through windows empty of glass. No shops are open, so families are shar-ing what they have with rel-atives and neighbors. Many of the dead and injured are those who risked foraging for food.”

Last TV appearanceWhile appearing on

CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” on February 21st, Col-vin recounted watching a Syrian baby boy die in her presence while images of the situation fl ashed on the

screen. “The baby’s death was heartbreaking. The grandmother was helping in the emergency room. She started shouting, ‘That’s my grandson! Where did you fi nd him?’ The doctor said, ‘There’s nothing we can do.’ It was horrifi c,” she told Cooper. “There’s constant shelling in the city. This is one of many stories. It’s chaos here.”

When Cooper asked her if she thought those graphic images should be shown on TV, she said she felt strong-ly that they should be. “This is the reality. These are 28,000 civilians – men, women and children who are being shelled and they are defenseless,” Colvin stated. “That baby is one of two children who died today. That baby will make more people think about what is going on and why is no one stopping this murder in Homs that is happening everyday.”

Cooper stated that the regime in Syria claimed that they are not hitting ci-vilians, there is no war but rather they are going after terrorist gangs. Colvin re-futed that statement by say-ing, “There are no military targets here. There is the

Free Syrian Army, which is heavily out numbered. They don’t have a base. They are trying to help the wounded get some kind of medical treatment. It’s a complete and utter lie that they are only going after terrorists. There are rockets, tank shells and aircrafts being fi red in a parallel line into the city. The Syrian Army is simply shelling the city of cold, starving civilians.”

Person behind the journalist

Colvin was the oldest of Rosemarie’s fi ve children. She is survived by her four siblings - brothers William and Michael and sisters Cathleen and Aileen.

Usually she would come home to East Norwich for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but this past holiday season Colvin was working. In fact Rosemarie had planned to take a trip with her grand-children to visit their aunt in London this spring.

In describing her per-sonality, Rosemarie spoke of how her daughter was a fun loving person with a grand sense of humor. “Ma-rie loved to dance and party. She was incredibly funny and always pulling tricks

on people,” she stated. “Ma-rie loved doing crazy thingswith her nieces and neph-ews. She once took someof them out one day andbought them a dog withouttelling their parents.”

The Colvin family has notdecided on how they are go-ing to memorialize her. Cur-rently, they are waiting tofi nd out if her body can beretrieved. “We are not evengoing to think about it untilwe see what happens,” saidRosemarie. “Syria won’teven acknowledge that ithappened.”

In 2010, Colvin deliv-ered a speech at St. Bride’sChurch on Fleet Street inLondon in memory of 49journalists that had beenkilled while on assignment.In her comments she frank-ly spoke about the risks in-volved in her line of work.

“Our mission is to reportthese horrors of war withaccuracy and without preju-dice. We always have to askourselves whether the levelof risk is worth the story.What is bravery, and whatis bravado?” said Colvin.“Journalists covering com-bat shoulder great respon-sibilities and face diffi cultchoices. Sometimes theypay the ultimate price.”

be demonstrated. The group stressed that it was impor-tant to publicize what has already been cut and that the School Budget should be made available for all to see line-by-line.

Middle School groupThe Middle School group,

headed by LVMS princi-pal Tom Hogan and School Board Vice President Su-zanne Sgueglia, noted major priorities being teacher avail-ability – after school & dur-ing lunch giving extra help, continued enrichment, a nine period day is preferred as well as small classes.

“They want it all – the art, the music, they don’t want to lose anything,” said Sgueglia. “They feel very strongly about being cre-ative to keep the programs we currently have. The con-sensus was they would be willing to go over the 2% if it meant holding onto the programs.”

Areas for reductions in-cluded busing and possibly going to 1/2-day kinder-garten. Another suggestion was to charge non-profi t organizations for use of the fi elds. It was declared by the Middle School group that the burden of cuts should be shared across the board between all the schools.

One of the questions raised was: How do we get the parents out to vote? “There are close to 1,000 residents in our commu-nity who are registered to vote and do not,” said Keri Carlstrom, Co-President of Coordinated Parents’ Coun-

cil for Locust Valley Central School District. “We have taken on the initiative to get everyone in the district reg-istered and to make sure to have those who will be out of town on the day of the budget vote fi le an absen-tee ballot so they voice their opinion and vote. We don’t tell you how to vote, we just want to make sure you do. Spread the word!”

Elementary/Intermediate School group

The Elementary/Inter-mediate School group, led by Trustees Carl A. Fried-rich and Charles Murphy, stressed right off the bat that they wanted to avoid eliminating elementary teaching positions or reduc-ing or eliminating kinder-garten.

“The most popular point of view among this focus group was to maintain the standards that we’ve come to achieve in this district. We were asked what lev-el of levy increase would it take to maintain those standards – we fi gured it would be somewhere in the

4% range. There was very strong support amongst this group to do that if we need to maintain the standards we’ve come to achieve,” said Friedrich. “We had some new residents note that it was these standards that drew them to this district and they certainly want to see them maintained.”

The Elementary/Inter-mediate School group wants to explore increasing the class minimum in the mid-dle school/high school and consider eliminating or con-solidating administrator po-sitions. They wanted to see if it was possible to have all administrators assume K-12 responsibility. Additionally, a map of administrators and each of their functions was requested.

“I brought up the point that we have gone through quite a consolidation of du-ties in terms of our admin-istrators within the district currently with many of them performing three or four ac-tivities. Never the less, the community still feels we need to look at whether or not there are teaching re-sponsibilities that can be

taken on by some or all of those administrators,” said Friedrich.

The group asked to con-sider reducing or adjusting the busing. In fact they want to assemble a student focus group to fi nd out how and when they are using busing and how they think the dis-trict can better streamline busing for cost savings.

In terms of increasing revenue the group wanted to look into non-athletic boosters and possibly charg-ing more for the summer recreation program.

Quick show of hands

Dolce noted that the Board will study and re-view all the suggestions and collected information. But before they closed the meeting Dolce asked the crowd to raise their hands if anyone would vote ‘no’ for any budget – no one raised

their hand. He then asked who felt the 2% tax cap is enough of a budget increase – one person raised their hand. Finally, Dolce asked how many people would vote for piercing the cap at a 4% (maybe less) budget increase in order to keep all resources in place – every-body raised their hand ac-cept one person.

“Any fi nal decision we make will be based on the information that you give us. We are trying to get a sense of what the value structure of the community is. Not just the cost savings but what resources you want,” said Dolce. “We as a community have to take care of Locust Valley and we will do our best.”

The next meetings will be held on March 7th and April 3rd at 8 PM in the Locust Valley High School/Middle School Mini-Theater.

resident Bayville, said hebeen complaining about thecondition of the propertyfor 10 years and he’s notoptimistic about its future.“Bayville is a tough placeto get renters. You can onlyhave so many tax accoun-tants or delis in town,” hesaid. “There’s only a threeor four month season herefor businesses. Rentals inBayville have always runinto a problem.”

Bayville Mayor DougWatson and Trustee AlStaab put pressure on theMohrings to take the build-ing down and clean up theproperty.

“This has been in theworks for some time. It’sbeen way too long and itseemed like nothing was go-ing to be done with it,” saidMayor Watson. “We wantedthem to clean up the siteand make it look better.Having the building downand cleaning up the areais going to go a long wayfor the community. We arestarting to get somewhere.”

There will be a fi ve-cargarage in the back allowingeach apartment to have itsown garage. The fi fth onewill be for the maintenanceof the property. All the planshave been reviewed and ap-proved by the Village Board.

“If the building is down- that’s step one. If they fi llin the basement - that’s steptwo. If they start building -that’s step three,” said MayorWatson. “It should be a niceaddition to the community.”

Journalist Marie Colvin of EN killed in Syria(Continued from page 1)

Pig ‘N Whistlebuilding getstorn down(Continued from page 1)

LV School Board reaches out to the community

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Local parents show concern at the LVCSD Budget Forum.

School Board President Jack Dolce converses with Super-intendent of Schools Dr. Anna Hunderfund.

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OUT IN RIGHT FIELDBy Jeff Davis

Lacrosse, scholarships and parents

If winter is here can lacrosse be far behind? Of all the major sports, of all the sports that receive schol-arships from colleges and universities, none receives more attention here on Long Island than lacrosse. La-crosse is the major sport of Long Island. Most college teams recruit and have a Long Island player on the squad. Some of the best male and female players in the sport are from the Island. So many parents be-lieve that their child will have their education paid for by a lacrosse scholarship from a college. Unfortu-nately it is only a remote hope at best. There is a cold reality when it comes to getting lacrosse scholarships that makes it so diffi cult.

What further feeds parents’ desire to see their child get the scholarship is the other cold fact, and that is that colleges don’t know or care about the recession. They may teach about it, they may even give lip ser-vice to it, but tuition and costs increase two or three times the rate of infl ation each year. This means that college costs to a family can be so high as to make it prohibitive. For many colleges the costs often exceed $60,000 per year. If you have more than one child the costs are just further exacerbated. Parents begin worrying about paying for college the day their baby is born.

In the world of sports scholarships lacrosse is a best a slim prospect even for some very gifted players. Here are some basic facts. There are 60 men’s Divi-sion I lacrosse programs. There are 84 women’s Di-vision I lacrosse programs. There are approximately 2,500 students playing lacrosse at Division I schools. Presently it is estimated that there are 560,000 high school athletes playing lacrosse. That alone doesn’t make for good odds.

The NCAA also restricts the amount of scholarships that a Division I team may give. For men’s Division I teams they may have no more than 12.6 scholarships and for women’s teams no more than 12 scholarships. Colleges and Universities in an effort to attract more players often give no more than 4 full scholarships to very key players and then divide the remaining schol-arships into half scholarships or quarter scholarships. Division II teams have fewer scholarships available and there are much fewer teams. Division III does not offer scholarships. Parents shouldn’t think my child is the one who will get the money. If this happens great, but it is far from a sure thing and putting pressure of a young player to get that scholarship isn’t a good idea.

Yet playing lacrosse or any sport does have an im-pact on entrance to colleges or universities. Colleges are looking for well rounded students. At Division III colleges playing lacrosse or any other sport well can help in getting the funds that these colleges have to help defray the costs of attendance. It won’t pay the entire cost of college, but the grant in aid does make the eventual loan that a student may have when graduating just a bit lower. Playing the sport at the college level and extending the time you have to play organized lacrosse is its own reward.

For the parents who will be spending so much to get your child on the right traveling team, at the right camp, seen by the coaches, don’t believe a scholar-ship is at the end of the rainbow. Do believe that the more your child plays the game that so many love; the money is never wasted. Do know that having that box fi lled on the application saying you play a sport, that you are from Long Island and may play it better than most, may help get into that college and may even help with a grant in aid. It’s about playing the game and loving it. If extras come, so be it, but don’t expect them.

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Oyster Bay resident Ryan Tveter, who will advance to the Star Mazda Champion-ship presented by Goodyear this year, epitomizes the new breed of open-wheel driver that the Mazda Road to Indy program strives to produce.

Tveter’s serious, intelli-gent, well educated, eager to learn, mature beyond his 17 years, accomplished in a wide range of subjects, well traveled, very techni-cally oriented and he wants to be part of the solution to some of the world’s biggest problems. Tveter’s powerful work ethic and talent have earned him not only top-10 fi nishes in several very high-profi le races, but have also won him academic honors as well as a place in one of the country’s top universi-ties.

Remi Lanteigne, one of the most successful engi-neers in the history of junior open-wheel racing, is so im-pressed with Tveter both on and off the track that he’s agreed to serve as his lead engineer and program man-ager for the foreseeable fu-ture.

Executives from sev-eral corporations who see Tveter’s long-term potential as a marketing partner are also paying attention, since he’s comfortable in both the cockpit and in the world of business-to-business and consumer marketing.

Born in New Canaan, Conn., Tveter hails from both Oyster Bay and Meilen, Switzerland. He’s a senior at an academically renowned boarding school in Walling-ford, Conn., called Choate Rosemary Hall, where his focus is on physics, envi-ronmental science and jazz trombone. His current class-es include physics, calcu-lus, environmental science, French and comparative literature. Yes, he speaks

French. He’s also doing a capstone project, which is similar to a master’s thesis for undergraduates, entitled “Physics and Sustainability in Motorsport” – something that took him to Birming-ham, England where he par-ticipated in the MIA’s Low Carbon Racing Conference and the Autosport Interna-tional Show last month. In addition to racing Tveter supervises and mentors younger boarding students at school, he’s the goalie on the junior varsity hockey team, he used to be on the varsity rowing team, and he’s played trombone since the age of 8.

Tveter’s already been ad-mitted to the engineering program at Lehigh Universi-ty in Bethlehem, Pa., where he’ll start classes in August. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks Lehigh in the top tier of national research universities each year.

Tveter has been a master diver and rescue diver since the age of 14, with numer-ous specialties in marine conservation. He’s explored the state of coral reefs by diving at The Great Barrier Reef, East Africa, South Af-rica, Belize, Mexico and the Caribbean. He visited Ant-arctica on a marine research trip. He’s lived in the United

States, Austria, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, and he’s visited over 50 countries.

In addition to excelling at racing and his education, Tveter wants to harness race fans’ passion for the sport to help solve our planet’s en-vironmental problems. He’s the founder of a website, www.SustainableSpeed.org, which he is developing to educate race fans about sustainability in motors-ports. Its volunteer advisory board consists of sustain-ability and climate change experts, educators and busi-nesspeople.

Tveter made his debut on the racing scene last year, competing in two Formula Tour 1600 events and two USF2000 races. He had a tenth-place fi nish in a fi eld of 44 cars at the Montreal Grand Prix in June, follow-ing that up with an 11th-place fi nish at the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres in Au-gust.

Making the jump into the USF2000 Series, Tveter fi n-ished tenth in Race 1 and eighth in Race 2 at the inau-gural Baltimore Grand Prix. It was all excellent experi-ence, especially since he’ll revisit two of those three venues (Trois-Rivieres and Baltimore) this year in Star Mazda.

Tveter plans to com-pete in seven of the 10 StarMazda events scheduled for2012 as a member of TeamGDT, which is based in Dal-las. His car number will be33.

He’ll compete in the sea-son opener March 24-25 atthe Grand Prix of St. Pe-tersburg in Florida with theIZOD IndyCar Series, butthen he’ll miss the races atBarber Motorsports Park inBirmingham, Ala.; LucasOil Raceway in Indianapo-lis and the June 22-24 datewhose location is yet to beannounced due to confl ictswith his school schedule.He’ll rejoin the circuit July7-8 at the Grand Prix ofToronto and compete full-time from that point. AfterToronto comes the GrandPrix of Edmonton (Alberta,Canada) July 21-22; theGrand Prix of Trois-Rivieres(Quebec, Canada) Aug. 3-5;the Grand Prix of BaltimoreSept. 1-2; Mazda RacewayLaguna Seca (Sonoma, Ca-lif.) Sept. 8-9 and the sea-son fi nale at the Petit LeMans at Road Atlanta (Bra-selton, Ga.) Oct. 17-20.

Tveter isn’t slated to par-ticipate in the series’ opentest at Barber MotorsportsPark on March 19-20, buthe did do a two-day testrecently at Eagles CanyonRaceway in Decatur, Texas.

Lanteigne said that Tvet-er set extremely competitivetimes at that test despitecold tire temperatures dueto the seasonable weather.

“We were smiling ear toear after that test,” said Lan-teigne, who has worked withdrivers like Helio Castro-neves, Jacques Villeneuve Sr.,Katherine Legge, Alex Barronand Alex Rossi, among a hostof others, in the last 20 years.“Ryan is very technically ori-ented, hardworking and ea-ger to learn. He’s very smart,and I’m anxious to see howfar we can go.”

Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano recently had the distinguished oppor-tunity to honor Super Bowl Champion New York Giant Defensive End and Defensive Captain Justin Tuck with an offi cial Key to Nassau County for his efforts in promoting children’s literacy through his foundation, Tuck’s R.U.S.H. for Literacy. Mangano joined with Umberto’s of New Hyde Park in presenting Tuck with their $10,000 donation to R.U.S.H for Literacy.

“On behalf of all residents, I am honored to present Justin with an offi cial key to Nassau County and thank him for not only his efforts on the football fi eld, but for all his work in en-couraging children to stay in school and embrace literacy,” said the County Executive.

Mangano thanked Tuck and the New York Giants organization for all of their hard work and highlighted the economic impact the Gi-ants’ Super Bowl XLVI win had on the local economy. According to CNBC ana-lysts, each person spent a net average of nearly $60 on the Super Bowl this year.

“The Super Bowl is big

business, even if it’s not be-ing played in the tri-state area. The Giants’ victory is as good as it gets from a retail merchandise and res-taurant perspective. Fans bought everything from food and beverages to new televisions, furniture, team paraphernalia and decora-tions, so it was a good shot in the arm for our econo-my,” added Mangano.

Tuck’s R.U.S.H. for Literacy was founded in 2008 by Lau-ran & Justin Tuck and works to raise funds to donate books and other reading materials to support children in New York, New Jersey, and Central Ala-bama communities.

Oyster Bay’s Ryan Tveter gets behind the wheel

Open-wheel driver Ryan Tveter of Oyster Bay

(From left) County Executive Ed Mangano with NY Giant Justin Tuck.

Mangano honors NY Giants Super Bowl champion Justin Tuck


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The Knights of Colum-bus - Fr. Thomas Connelly Council #5314 had a lot to celebrate on Saturday, Feb-ruary 18th when four out of their seven contestants ad-vanced to the County round of the Knights of Columbus’ Free Throw Championship. The District round was held at Our Lady of Mercy gym in Hicksville and each contes-tant got 25 shots.

The big winner of the day was a 10 year-old girl - Kai-tlyn Maleady of Glen Cove who cranked out a whop-ping 18 out of 25 baskets. The funny thing is Kaitlyn’s the smallest of everyone standing at 4 feet 6 inches and weighing 68 lbs yet she had the best score of the day.

Kaitlyn practices with her brother at home and her dad takes her to the YMCA. She also plays on the St. Hyacinth Storm and at the Grenville Baker Boys & Girls Club in Locust Valley.

The 12 year-old boy win-ner was Kaitlyn’s brother Sean Maleady of Glen Cove who knocked out 15 of 25. “I felt pretty good, maybe a bit nervous. I did what I expected,” he said. When asked if he felt bad that his little sister outscored him, Sean stated, “I have to beat her by three in the next round to round it out.”

“Kaitlyn has a lot of de-termination and she per-forms well under pressure,” said her dad Tom Maleady, who was proud of his kids. “They both love basketball and have had good coach-es over the years. They’ve been practicing over the last

couple of weeks. A lot of it is focus.”

The 11 year-old boy win-ner was Seamus Sullivan of Bayville, who was able to sink 14 out of 25. Although he was a bit nervous, all the practice in his driveway paid off.

The 14 year-old girl winner was Samantha Peguillan of Bayville, who replaced Lau-ren Sabatino of Bayville who couldn’t make it so she fi lled in. She scored 9 out of 25.

Even though he only scored 3 out of 25, Matt Palc-zewski of Oyster Bay (differ-ent district) was the 14 year-old boy winner advancing to the next round. Runners-up included thirteen year-old Dayna Morfi s of Bayville (5 of 25) and twelve year-old Emma Ruhl of Locust Valley (12 of 25).

“I’m very proud of our

winners. This is the most we’ve ever sent to the third round ever. Four out of seven isn’t bad plus two runners-up who might be able to advance,” said Steve Peguillan of the Fr. Thomas Connelly Council #5314. “We had more kids par-ticipating this year because we really got the word out about the contest. I’ve been sending out emails telling

LEGAL NOTICEINCORPORATED VILLAGE OF LAUREL HOLLOWLEGAL NOTICENOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGPLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Laurel Hollow shall, on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. or as soon as possible thereafter, conduct a public hearing relative to Intro-ductory Local Law B-2012, which would repeal existing Chapter 125, TREES, and adopt a new Chapter 125, TREES, as amend-ed. Said public hearing shall be held at the Village Hall, 1492 Laurel Hollow Road, Lau-rel Hollow, New York.Copies of said local laws will be available for review at the Village Hall during normal business hours.By Order of the Board of TrusteesKaren A. NavinClerk-TreasurerDated: February 14, 2012Issue Date: February 24, 2012#23397E

LEGAL NOTICENOTICE TO BIDDERSINC. VILLAGE OF LAUREL HOLLOWNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that sealed pro-posals are sought and requested for STREET SWEEPING SERVICES ON VILLAGE ROAD-WAYS for the Village of Laurel Hollow.The sealed proposals must be made upon the form of bid furnished, and will be received at the Office of the Village Clerk, Village of Laurel Hollow, 1492 Laurel Hollow Road, in Laurel Hollow, until 12:00 Noon on Thursday, March 8, 2012, at which time they will be publicly opened by the Village Clerk and read aloud. Bids must be submitted in sealed envelopes, addressed to the Board of Trustees of the Village of Laurel Hollow, and shall bear on the face thereof the name and address of the bidder. Bids may be mailed to the Village of Laurel Hollow, 1492 Laurel Hollow Road, Syosset, New York, 11791, but must arrive on or before the time above specified.The specifications, instructions to bidders, form of bid or proposal, and form of con-tract, will be available at the Village Clerk’s Office, as aforesaid, on Monday thru Friday, except holidays, between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. A fee of fifty dollars ($50) made payable to the Village of Laurel

Hollow will be required for a copy of the plans, specifications, detail sheets, proposal and contract form. Said fee will be refund-ed, provided bidders comply with º102.2 of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York, and upon submission of a com-pleted voucher form.Each bid must be accompanied by a certified check, in the amount of 5% of the “Total Bid Price”, upon a National or State Bank, pay-able to the order of the Village of Laurel Hol-low or a bid bond by a recognized surety company of an amount not less than 5% of the “Total Bid Price” as guarantee that the bidder will execute the contract and com-mence performance of the contract in the stipulated time if such contract should be awarded to him.The Village of Laurel Hollow reserves the right to reject any or all bids, waive any informalities, and to accept such bid which, in its opinion, is in the best interest of the Village.By order of the Board of Trustees.KAREN A. NAVINVILLAGE CLERK/TREASURERDated: February 13, 2012Issue Date: February 24, 2012#23398E

LEGAL NOTICEINCORPORATED VILLAGE OF LAUREL HOLLOW2nd REVISIONPUBLIC NOTICEPLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Laurel Hollow shall meet on the following dates, at 7:30 P.M., at the Village Hall, 1492 Laurel Hollow Road, Laurel Hollow, NY: Tuesday March 13, 2012 Tuesday April 10, 2012Tuesday May 8, 2012Tuesday June 12, 2012Tuesday July 10, 2012 (Annual Meeting)Please take further notice that the Board of Appeals of the Village of Laurel Hollow shall meet on the second Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m., at the Village Hall, provided that they have business to transact. Please take further notice that the Planning Board of the Village of Laurel Hollow shall meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 8:00 p.m., at the Village Hall, provided they have business to transact.Notice of any additional meetings of the

Board of Trustees and the Board of Appealswill be provided pursuant to the Open Meet-ings Law of the State of New York.Karen A. NavinClerk / TreasurerFebruary 10, 2012#23399E

LEGAL NOTICEVILLAGE OF MUTTONTOWNBOARD OF TRUSTEESPUBLIC NOTICEA public hearing will be held by and beforethe Board of Trustees of the IncorporatedVillage of Muttontown, Nassau County, NewYork, at 7:30P.M. at the Muttontown VillageHall located at One ‘Raz’ Tafuro Way, in Mut-tontown on Tuesday, March 6th, 2012.The Board will continue to consider theadoption of:A Local Law amending Chapter 74 (FreshWater Wetlands) of the Code of the Incorpo-rated Village of Muttontown to redefine thedefinition of Fresh Water Wetlands; andamending Chapter 158 (Subdivision of Land)of the Code of the Incorporated Village ofMuttontown to provide for additional designstandards including but not limited to stan-dards for slopelands, freshwater wetlands,and perimeter buffers, and modifying theprocedures for dedication of parkland.Copies of the proposed local law are on fileat the office of the Village Clerk and may beviewed during the hours of 9:30A.M. to12:30P.M. Monday through Friday.If any individual requires special assistanceto attend, please notify the Village Clerk atleast 48 hours in advance of the hearing.Board of TrusteesVillage of MuttontownOne ‘Raz’ Tafuro WayMuttontown, New YorkFebruary 24, 2012#23417E

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everyone to practice, prac-tice, practice!”

The next round will be the regional round, which is Nas-sau County-wide and will be

held at St. Dominic’s Monsi-gnor James E. Collins Sports Center in Oyster Bay on Saturday, March 10th at 10 AM. Winners of the regional

round go to the All-Long Is-land round and the winnersof that go to the New YorkState championships typi-cally held at West Point.

Local kids advance to K of C Free Throw Championship’s third round

Ten year-old girl winner Kai-tlyn Maleady of Glen Cove scored 18 baskets out of 25.

Eleven year-old boy winner Seamus Sullivan of Bay-ville sank 14 out of 25 free throws.

Twelve year-old boy winner Sean Maleady of Glen Cove scored 15 of 25 free throws.


(From left) Seamus Sullivan of Bayville, Matt Palczewski of Oyster Bay, Sean Maleady of Glen Cove, Steve Peguillan ofthe Fr. Thomas Connelly Council #5314, Samantha Peguillan of Bayville and Kaitlyn Maleady of Glen Cove.


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Horse & carriage rides through Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay were offered at the annual Mardi Gras Gala on Sunday, February 19th. Children made their own animal masks choosing between a deer, owl, fox or raccoon.


Five year-old Ella Lingen of East Norwich bounces in the Star-Walk.

(From left) Isabella Longobucco, 3, of Glen Cove, Emma Mandato, 6, of Bayville, Antonio, 6 months, and Gianna Longobucco, 5, of Glen Cove show off their Mardi Gras beads.

Amore (Dr. James Lazzerini) works his magic with the helpof Zoe Siegel, 9, of Sea Cliff (center) and Payson Marshall,5, of Locust Valley (right).

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